The Night Listener focuses on Gabriel Noone who is a popular gay radio show host. He has tons of personal problems, the biggest being a shattering relationship. Gabriel soon begins a telephone relationship with his biggest fan. This fan happens to be a young boy who says he is an incest survivor and has AIDS. Gabriel gets sucked into this boy's stories and is severely haunted. But soon enough many eerie questions about the boy's identity begin to arise and disrupt Gabriel's life.